On The Restrictions On Farmers’ Rights

Because of your support for those rules, farmers cannot sell their land. If an industrialist wants to set up a factory in a rural area, he cannot approach the farmers directly and cut a deal. He has to approach the government to acquire land for him. Because of you, local politicians can run reigns of terror over entire districts, because they have feudal power over which land gets acquired and which doesn’t. Your support for these rules is directly responsible for thousands of crores worth of corruption in India.

Ravikiran deplores the Indian middle class for supporting legistlations which restrict farmers from selling their land for non-agricultural purposes. The post is very enlightening, of course but for the fact that (to the best of my knowledge) most of the middle class doesn’t even know whether such laws exist, let alone care about them.